Help with ABI and education

Recommended Reading about Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and Education

Unfortunately there are not many books about ABI and education specifically, especially from a UK perspective.  However there is one which SHIPS recommends should be on every school bookshelf.  It is:

Walker & Wicks (2005) Educating children with Acquired Brain Injury: David Fulton

There is also a magazine for those involved with the education of children, young people and adults after an ABI.  The Acquirer is published 3 times per year.  For further information click here to visit The Acquirer website

More general books worth reading include:

• Ylvisaker, M. (1998) Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Children and Adolescents pub Butterworth Heinemann
• Semrud-Clikeman (2001) Traumatic Brain Injury in children and adolescents: assessment and intervention pub. Guildford Press
  
  

Include me in

Include me in is a practical guide to recent legislation and recommendations and covers inclusion into schools, phases of recovery and how you can help, recommendations for multiagency working and a list of people and organisations which can help.

A website with excellent information www.includemein.org

SHIPS factsheets

SHIPS provides downloadable fact sheets on a number of topics specifically of interest to teachers, LSAs and others working in education.  SHIPS factsheets are gradually being uploaded. They are free to download.  Click on each one to download the page. We hope you find them useful

• What is ABI?
• Returning to school after ABI
• Homework
• Reading after ABI
• Teaching prosocial behaviours after ABI
• Dealing with bullying
• After school with ABI
• Use of routines after ABI
• Behaviour management after ABI

Research papers

There are a number of research papers which have been produced by SHIPS personnel which you may find helpful. Click on each one to download the page:

• Rehabilitation through education after-ABI - a paper given at the International HOPE conference, November 2006
• Redesigning the scaffolding metaphor for ABI - a paper given in Sydney and Perth, Australia, August 2006
• Is ABI a unique disability? - from The Acquirer Vol 3 (3)  Summer 2006
• What's in a label? - from The Acquirer Vol 3 (3)  Summer 2006
• The classical classroom: enhancing learning for pupils with acquired Brain Injury - from Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs Vol 8 (2)

Articles

Articles which may be of interest are included here.  Click on each one to download it.

• John learns to read - from The Acquirer Vol 2 (1)
• Moving on to college - from The Acquirer Vol 3(1)
• Social Skills after ABI - Picking up the ground-rules - from HIRE magazine Autumn 2002

Lifeboats

Sometimes a child or young person needs to be 'rescued' after an ABI, when they have not learned to read or handled numbers as would be expected for their age.  Help is at hand in the form of a Lifeboat.  Currently SHIPS is developing Lifeboats for reading, numeracy, awareness and study skills.  Click here for more details

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